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English
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A Film and Faith Leader's Guide: Theme 1 Practicing Friendship equips youth pastors and small group leaders to explore the key theme of Practicing Friendship as presented in the award-winning film Because of Grácia. This three-session study will inspire students to think about teen dating, relationships, and sexuality in new ways, encouraging them to first form friendships based on mutual respect. As Grace shows Chase in the film, these conversations...
762) Rascal
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
This picture book biography of William Carlos Williams traces childhood events that lead him to become a doctor and a poet.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with...her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago...But when she gets a letter from her biological father...Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him...While King's friendship makes Lou feel safer...when her family's business comes under threat, she soon realizes that she can't...
766) Lines of courage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the assassination that triggers World War I in 1914 to Armistice Day in 1918, the story follows the fates of five young people on both sides of the conflict--each facing their portion of the war with courage, until the end of the war brings them together. Includes information on the history of the war.
767) How we ricochet
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Language
English
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Betty, her sister and mother were all shopping at the mall when the shooting happened -- and although they all survived, none of them would be the same after. Betty watches her mother throw herself into activism and away from her family, while her outgoing sister becomes a shadow of her former self. Desperate for answers, Betty finds herself reaching out to the shooter's brother, but all it does is reveal that nothing in life is simple to understand....
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author traces his experiences as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam, which led to his being awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and describes his sheltered childhood and his search for the truth about his uncle's death in World War II.
769) A child like you
Author
Publisher
Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspired by individuals like Greta Thunberg and Yusra Mardini, children are encouraged to demonstrate courage, determination, and hope as they tackle global issues.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
263 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The German-Irish author recounts his young adulthood desire to escape the legacies of his German mother and cousin, entanglement in a bitter dispute between Catholic and Protestant neighbors, and exposure to forbidden cultural elements.
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
226 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The childhood best friend of Vice President Kamala Harris looks back at the community in which they were raised and the lessons they learned from those they loved and admired.
772) Doughnuts and doom
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Series
Language
English
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Margot, a witch, and Elena, a rock musician, are both having a bad day and emotions run high during their first encounter, which could either become the start of a new relationship or curse them both to certain doom.
"Being a teenage witch -- or rock star -- is tougher than it looks! But maybe enemies can become friends... or more? Flying brooms and electric guitars set hearts aflame in this fantastically fizzy graphic novel. When Margot meets Elena,...
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English
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A new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria. Two decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young soldier serving the British Empire in the vast wilderness of the Ohio Valley. Naive and self-absorbed, the twenty-two-year-old officer accidentally ignited the French and Indian War--a conflict that opened colonists to the possibility of an American...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth. So begins Sid Fleischman's ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens. Abandoning a career as a young steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River, Sam took a bumpy stagecoach to the far West. In the gold and silver fields, he expected to get rich quick. Instead, he got poor fast,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
36 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Louis Braille was just five years old when he lost his sight. He was a clever boy, determined to live like everyone else, and what he wanted more than anything was to be able to read. Even at the school for the blind in Paris, there were no books for him. And so he invented his own alphabet -- a whole new system for writing that could be read by touch. A system so ingenious that it is still used by the blind community today.
777) God With Us
Author
Language
English
Description
JESUS IS TIMELESS.
JESUS IS NOW.
GOD WITH US: THE LIFE-CHANGING STORY OF JESUS.
TOLD FOR OUR TIMES.
TAKE THE JOURNEY TO EXPERIENCE THE GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPELS LIKE NEVER BEFORE!
God with Us tells the story of Jesus from the Gospels of the Bible. The four Gospels are blended into one powerful story-a sequential journey through the life and message of Jesus.
This new edition of God with Us features the Radiate™ New Testament, a modern Catholic...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
43 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life of renowned children's author and illustrator Ted Geisel, popularly known as Dr. Seuss, focusing on his childhood and youth in Springfield, Massachusetts.
780) Becoming Babe Ruth
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before he is known as the Babe, George Herman Ruth is just a boy who lives in Baltimore and gets into a lot of trouble. But when he turns seven, his father brings him to the gates of Saint Mary's Industrial School for Boys, and his life is changed forever. At Saint Mary's, he's expected to study hard and follow a lot of rules. But there is one good thing about Saint Mary's: almost every day, George gets to play baseball. Here, under the watchful eye...
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